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Option 1: 10 Days Masai Mara
– Naivasha/Hell's Gate – Nakuru – Bogoria –
Baringo – Samburu - Mt. Kenya
Option 2: 10 Days Masai Mara
– Naivasha/Hell's Gate – Nakuru – Amboseli - Tsavo
West - Tsavo East
Option Beach: 3-5-7 days
extra on the coast available on all itineraries
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Option 1: 10 Days Masai Mara – Naivasha/Hell's
Gate – Nakuru – Bogoria – Baringo – Samburu
- Mt. Kenya
Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel and
thereafter depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve via the viewpoint
of the Great Rift Valley, lunch en route. Arrive in time for an
afternoon game drive in this pristine, unequalled ‘big game
country’.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge /camp-site
Day 2: Masai Mara
This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early
breakfast. The Mara’s landscape is scenic savannah grassland
on rolling hills, which enables the reserve to attract sufficient
rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores,
together with the predators that follow. Elephant, lion, buffalo
can be seen with relative ease though luck is a necessary factor
for spotting rhino and leopard that complete the big five as the
two animals are very timid and sparsely numbered. Plains game like
wildebeest, zebra and Masai giraffe abound as well as hippos and
a wide variety of antelopes including impala, dik dik, hartebeest,
Grant’s gazelle and Thompson’s gazelle among others.
We will cater for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool.
At around 4:30pm there is a choice between a game drive, nature
walk escorted by our armed Masai guides and visit a local Masai
village to see their nomadic lifestyle; the Masai are famous for
their bravery, as they have co-existed with the animals over the
years. All meals and overnight at the lodge or camp-site
Day 3: Masai Mara – Naivasha / Hell's Gate
After breakfast, another morning of tracking game with your guide
in this reserve which borders Tanzania’s Serengeti National
Park and is the annual seasonal scene of the migration of close
to 800,000 zebra and wildebeest that occurs between the two parks.
Alternatively nature walk escorted by our armed Masai guides or
visit to the Masai village. Early lunch at the lodge or camp-site
After lunch, leave Masai Mara for Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha,
a Wetland of International Importance (RAMSAR), is a papyrus-lined
freshwater lake, surrounded by fever tree acacias, visited by hippos,
giraffe, buffalo and colobus monkeys and a world class birding destination
with over 400 avian species. Hell's gate national park is one of
the only two parks in Kenya where you can walk or cycle without
a ranger.
Night in Lake Naivasha
Day 4: Naivasha / Hell's Gate – Nakuru
Morning game drive or nature walk/cycling. After lunch proceed to
Lake Nakuru and reach it in time for lunch. Game drive in this park
the abode of various water birds that breed in the lake’s
salty water including flamingos, white pelicans and marabou stork;
white rhino may be seen as well as the rare Rothschild’s giraffe,
cape buffalo and other plains game in this park that is 188 square
kilometres.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / budget hotel
Day 5: Nakuru - Bogoria
After breakfast drive to Bogoria where the hot water springs abound
and plenty of medicinal springs. Dinner and overnight at a budget
hotel / lodge.
Day 6: Bogoria – Baringo - Nairobi
After lunch, visit Lake Baringo. One hour boat trip to see various
species of birds and very ancient caves. After lunch drive back
to Nairobi and arrive in the evening.
Day 7: Lake Nakuru - Samburu
Early morning drive in the park. After breakfast depart for Samburu
Game Reserve via the Thompson Falls, which are named after Joseph
Thompson, one of the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa
to Lake Victoria in the 1880’s. Lunch in Nanyuki. Arrive in
time for a short evening game drive. Dinner and overnight in a lodge
or in a camp-site
Day 8: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game-viewing sessions tracking the rare, drought
resistant animals species which can only be seen north of the equator;
these are: the reticulated giraffe, grevy’s zebra, the gerenuk
or giraffe-gazelle, Beisa Oryx and the blue shanked Somali ostrich.
The Ewaso Nyiro River traverses this park, it’s source being
the Aberdare ranges. There are therefore very high chances of spotting
crocodile in a natural environment though its water level varies
seasonally. You will have a lunch and leisure break in the mid afternoon.
Rest of meals and overnight at a lodge / camp-site
Day 9: Samburu/Mt. Kenya
Morning breakfast at Samburu and another game drive enroute. Leave
for Mount Kenya (Nanyuki ) to arrive intime for lunch. After lunch,
proceed for a visit to the Mau Mau caves (where freedom fighters
could hide from The British Troops during the struggle for independence).
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 10: Mt. Kenya - 14 falls - Nairobi
After breakfast drive to the 14 Falls for nature walk and photography.
Lunch at the Falls, after that proceed to Nairobi and arrive in the
evening.
Option 2: 10 Days Masai Mara – Naivasha/Hell's
Gate – Nakuru – Amboseli - Tsavo West - Tsavo East
Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel and
thereafter depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve via the viewpoint
of the Great Rift Valley, lunch en route. Arrive in time for an
afternoon game drive in this pristine, unequalled ‘big game
country’.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge /camp-site
Day 2: Masai Mara
This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early
breakfast. The Mara’s landscape is scenic savannah grassland
on rolling hills, which enables the reserve to attract sufficient
rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores,
together with the predators that follow. Elephant, lion, buffalo
can be seen with relative ease though luck is a necessary factor
for spotting rhino and leopard that complete the big five as the
two animals are very timid and sparsely numbered. Plains game like
wildebeest, zebra and Masai giraffe abound as well as hippos and
a wide variety of antelopes including impala, dik dik, hartebeest,
Grant’s gazelle and Thompson’s gazelle among others.
We will cater for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool.
At around 4:30pm there is a choice between a game drive, nature
walk escorted by our armed Masai guides and visit a local Masai
village to see their nomadic lifestyle; the Masai are famous for
their bravery, as they have co-existed with the animals over the
years. All meals and overnight at the lodge or camp-site
Day 3: Masai Mara – Naivasha / Hell's Gate
After breakfast, another morning of tracking game with your guide
in this reserve which borders Tanzania’s Serengeti National
Park and is the annual seasonal scene of the migration of close
to 800,000 zebra and wildebeest that occurs between the two parks.
Alternatively nature walk escorted by our armed Masai guides or
visit to the Masai village. Early lunch at the lodge or camp-site
After lunch, leave Masai Mara for Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha,
a Wetland of International Importance (RAMSAR), is a papyrus-lined
freshwater lake, surrounded by fever tree acacias, visited by hippos,
giraffe, buffalo and colobus monkeys and a world class birding destination
with over 400 avian species. Hell's gate national park is one of
the only two parks in Kenya where you can walk or cycle without
a ranger.
Night in Lake Naivasha
Day 4: Naivasha / Hell's Gate – Nakuru
Morning game drive or nature walk/cycling. After lunch proceed to
Lake Nakuru and reach it in time for lunch. Game drive in this park
the abode of various water birds that breed in the lake’s
salty water including flamingos, white pelicans and marabou stork;
white rhino may be seen as well as the rare Rothschild’s giraffe,
cape buffalo and other plains game in this park that is 188 square
kilometres.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / budget hotel
Day 5: Nakuru - Bogoria - Baringo
After breakfast drive to Bogoria where the hot water springs abound
and plenty of medicinal springs. Ptroceed to Baringo. Dinner and
overnight at a budget hotel / lodge.
Day 6: Baringo - Amboseli
After breakfast, one hour boat trip to see various species of birds
and very ancient caves. Drive to Amboseli via Nairobi, lunch en
route and arrive in the evening. In clear weather, you may see Mt.
Kilimanjaro’s peak. Dinner and overnight at the lodge /campsite.
Day 7:Amboseli
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive in this park, which lies
in a dried-up lakebed. There are swamps and springs fed by underground
rivers from the melting snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro, which give permanent
water to the wildlife. The animals seen here include lion, elephant,
cheetah, buffalo, plains game and the rare Taita weaver and the
gerenuk. The animals are mainly found around the Ol Kenya swamp.
If the weather is clear and there is no low cloud cover, you may
see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, which forms a beautiful backdrop
to the park. The observation hill offers a view of the entire park
and beyond. An afternoon game drive will follow after lunch.
Rest of meals and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 8: Amboseli - Tsavo West
After breakfast, depart Amboseli for Tsavo West National Park, lunch
enroute. You will visit the Shaitani Lava flows as the area where
the park lies is of volcanic origin. The Mzima Springs which contain
20 million tonnes of crystal - clear water from the underground
streams of the nearby Chyullu Hills are an additional attraction;
various aspects of marine life including hippos, crocodile and fish
can be seen from the specially constructed underground glass tank.
The animal species seen at Tsavo are hippo, crocodiles, elephant,
gazelle, zebra, giraffe, various birds, buffalo, and kudu in a thick
acacia setting.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 9: Tsavo West - Tsavo East
A morning game drive will follow after breakfast and probably view
the rock hyrax, squirrels and mongooses as the park contains a large
population of these. Depart for Tsavo East National Park, lunch
enroute. Here, only the section south of the Galana River is open
to the public for game drives; the rest of the park serves as a
wilderness for the animals to retreat into. Here the dried up Aruba
dam can be seen plus crocodiles at the crocodile point below the
Lugard falls. Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 10: Tsavo East - Nairobi
After breakfast, your final game drive will follow during which
you may see plains game, zebra, antelope, lesser kudu, ostrich and
large herds of elephant. Lunch will be taken enroute. Arrive in
Nairobi in the evening.
Option Beach
The option for extra 3-5-7 days on the coast is available on all itineraries.
Main locations on the coast are Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu, Diani Beach,
Watamu, Tiwi.
Transport via train, bus or flight
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